CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Shnaider, Vita |
|---|---|
| Title | Anticonstruction Activism and the Production of Housing in Post-Socialist Kyiv |
| Summary | The thesis explores grassroots anticonstruction activism in three Kyiv neighbourhoods (Mykilska Slobidka, Horbachykha, and Rusanivski Sady) and their politico-economic context. Since the Ukrainian housing policy developed almost exclusive support of homeownership, private developing companies in growing Ukrainian cities in 2021 were steadily increasing the construction rates, despite the crises. Based on field observations and interviews with anticonstruction activists in the summer of 2021, the thesis explores the tension between the developer, municipality, and hromada (community) and reveals the complexity of the object of contestation - the novobudova (new construction). First, through the resentment of Mykilska Slobidka activists toward an unwanted housing infrastructure, their relation to the post-socialist built environment of mikrorajon is investigated. Secondly, by examining the histories of protest in Horbachykha and Rusanivski Sady against the outcomes of the construction of the Podilsko-Voskresenskyi bridge, the specificity of post-socialist relations between citizenship, private property, and community are addressed. Finally, I show that anticonstruction protests do not simply oppose a particular infrastructural object but the unjust, exclusive, and concealed planning and redevelopment process revealed by how novobudovy (pl.) emerged in Kyiv. Moreover, a hromada, produced within the civil society discourse and not related directly to the political or economic power, has to be recognised as a relatively exclusive group of people whose universalist claims reflect their own interests primarily. |
| Supervisor | Bodnar, Judit; Sopranzetti, Claudio |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/shnaider_vita.pdf |
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